Sex/Machine

Description

... discusses the complex connections between gender and technology... an intriguing and enlightening book, the latest in an outstanding... series by Indiana University Press." —Bruce Hilton, Scripps Howard News Service

How does technology influence gender roles? From personal computers and cyberspace to artificial wombs and sex reassignment surgery, technology has opened up the possibility that sex roles as well as the gendered notions we have of human identity are subject to radical change. This engaging anthology examines long-standing stereotypical associations of men with technology and women with nature and assesses the impact of technologies that have necessarily blurred distinctions between the sexes and altered traditional views of gender.

Author Bio

Patrick D. Hopkins is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Ripon College. He is co-editor (with Larry May and Robert Strikwerda) of Rethinking Masculinity: Philosophical Explorations in Light of Feminism. He is currently working on a book that is provisionally titled, Un/Natural: "Nature," "Culture," and Technology in Moral and Political Discourse.

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Table of Contents

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Intersection of Culture, Gender, and Technology by Patrick D. Hopkins

Part 1: Inventing Histories: Gender and Technological Development1. Women Hold Up Two-Thirds of the Sky: Notes for a Revised History of Technology Autumn Stanley2. The "Industrial Revolution" in the Home: Household Technology and Social Change in the 20th Century Ruth Schwartz Cowan3. The Culture of the Telephone Michéle Martin4. Femininity and the Electric Car Virginia Scharff5. Does Technology Work for Women Too? Lilia Oblepias-Ramos

Part 3: (Re)Locating Fetuses: Technology and New Body Politics11. Male Pregnancy Dick Teresi and Kathleen McAuliffe12. Is Pregnancy Necessary? Feminist Concerns About Ectogenesis Julien S. Murphy13. New Reproductive Technology: Some Implications for the Abortion Issue Christine Overall14. Opinion in the Matter of Davis v. Davis Supreme Court of the State of Tennessee